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Leiters Patent N., 77,001, ma April 21, 186s.

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l Be it lknown that I, HUGH W'. COLLENDER, oi' `theeity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin-Gombination-Tahles for Billiards,and other uses; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to thcaccompanying drawings making part oil this specication, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of 'the table as arranged for playing billiards. Figure 2 is a like view of the table when converted'for dining or other uses.

Figure 3, ,a cross vertical section, on a smaller scale, of` the table takenl in' ,the plane ofthe-line A ct oi,-

iig. il; and v Figure 4, a detail view, showing plan of angle-sight platesfand spiritlevels.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures. -V Y Tables have heretofore been made convertible, so that they could be used either for playing billiards or for dining, by constructingthem in mannersuitable for playing billiards, and providing them with a series of leaves to be put on when used for dining or other purposes, and as the surface is required to he higher for playing the game of billiards than for other uses, the top'i'rame or such tables was provided with screws, extending-down- ,wardsn and tapped into the legs, so that by turning the' screws, the frame could be elevated or depressed, spirit- 'levels bein'ginserted in theframe to indieatevhen brought tothe required level for playing billiards. Such bed is to be used tor other .purposes it is inverted, and the billiard-surface placed on, and the cushions surround- Inode of construction is objectionable, because, iirst, of the 'inconvenience or putting on and taking oi'f the-top leaves `whenever the table is required to be converted; second, of the trouble of turning so many screws to change theheight of the table every time it is converted, there being one screw for .each leg, and the length of time required to get the surfa'ce of the table level every time it is converted 'and third, of thc diiliculty, it' not the impossibility, of having thev table -rxn `and steady, the frame being connected with the legs by means oi screws, which niust be made to turn freely, and which, if made to t accurately at first, will soon 1become loose bywear. y Y Y v 7 By my said invention avoid all the above-named diiiieulties.

Inthe accompanying drawings, t represents aqnadrangular frame of the required size,- iirrnly secured in any suitable manner tothe legs, 5. The lower ends of the legs are. provided with screw-base pieces, e, for

adjusting the level `o`f the table, or it may ble levelled in any other suitable manner. To the outer surface of.

the frame a is tted a ysecond. frame, a', whichl terr'n the tahle-bed frame, and so fitted thereto as to slide up and down accurately, but with sucient freedom notfto bind. The sides hf the outer frame ol, at the top and between the ends, are connected by two cross-bracegee, and from those cross-braces four hangeraf, extend down inside oi' the inner frame o, their lower edges being bevelled all in thesame direction.

Within the inner'franie there is iitted a carriage, g, which slides on horizontal ways, t t, and this carriage is provided with four .earn-pieces, is', bevelled to correspond with the bevelof the hangersff, and the extreme end of the hangers and cams is formed with a flat surface beyond the bevell 4 i A screw-shaft, j, provided with a crank-handle, 7c, is journallell to oneend ofthe inner frame a., and works in ajnut, l, in one end ofthe carriage` g, so that by the turning-oi' the said lscrew-shaft the carriage, with its earn-pieces z', can b'e readily moved back and orthte elevate or depress the outer frame. n The billiard-bed, m, and the surrounding cushions, n, are te be as represented, and as is well known to billiard-table manufacturers, and theunder, or rather the other fires, o, of this hed, is properlyiornied to be used either as a dining-table, a library, or a work-table, and ifdesired, this surface may he formed with a slightly-Projecting border, to prevent the bed from slipping when the other surface isnsed for playing billiards; hut this is not necessary, as the weight of the b ed resting on the outer frame will prevent slipping, l@hen the ing the outer ,trarne rl, lsothat the bed cannot slip. i f

Spirit-levels, f1. are inserted in recesses inode in the eushionwblecl-ts, and the plates, g, which i'orinthe angle I l 'mooi sights, haveeach a mortise' of'V nearly the size of, and-are secured to the cushion-blocks immediately over', the

. spirit-levels, to answer the double purpose of marking themiddle of the length of each oi' the cushions, and o' protecting the spiritdevels.

Fromthe foregoing, it will be seen that the bevelledhangers f rest onl the cam-picccsz' of the carriage y, sothat it' the ways on which tho carriage slides be true and paralelwith the surface of the billiard-bed, and the Hat surface of the cam-pieces't" and hangers j' are accurately tted, by simply turning the one screw-simi't, the outer frame, with the table-bed, can be readilydepressed to the required height to be'used for dining, writing, or reading, and, when required for playing b il1iards, elevated until the'flalt surfaces of the hangers j' rest on ,the fiat surface of the campieces 5,' so ythat when the billiardbed has once been levelled, whenever so ele- -vated it will be level, thus avoiding the necessity of' adjusting the level every time thc table is convert-ed.

To avoid friction, the carriage gmafyibemade `in tn'oparts, with 4the bevel of the two s cts of cam-pieces z' and hangers f reversed, and the screw-shaft y' formed with a right and a left-handed thread to it nuts in tlie two parts oi" the carriage. In this way the forceA exerted'to elevate the outer'rame and bed will be 'exerted in opposite directions instead o f bcing'exerted all in one direction.

Itwillfbc obvious that the number of bearing-points of the bed on the carriage orearriagcs may be increased by `increasing the number of cam-pieces and hangers, ,but I have found four to'ibe sulicieut.

And 4,it willV also be obvious that sonne ofmy saidimprovclnents may be used without others; as, for instance, the meclianisrnfor elevating the bed maybe used to advantage without a reversible bed, byusiug a series of' leaves to cover the billiard-surface when the table is to be converted into a dining-table.4

. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The elevating-mechanism, substantially such as herein described, in combination with a billiard-tuble bed which is convertible, so that it canbe used for playing billiards, or for dining or other uses, as described. 2.' The combination o the elevating-mechanism,- the movable or outerbedrame dyand the reversibl.; bed m, substantially as and for the purpose described. V l

3. The combination o f `the elevating-mechanism, the'outer or ybed-trained, the bed'm, or the equivalent thereof, and the adjustable base-pieces cloti the legs, -substantialIy as and for the purpose described; and 4. The combination of the spirit-levels with the angle-sight plates, substantially as and for the purpose described. l l. i

HUGH W. COLLENDER.

Witnesses: i

.Anonnw DE Lacy,

WM. H. Breuer. 

